Year 5
❤️ Cycle D ❤️
Genre: Popular Music
Style: Artpop
Composer:
Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born in 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress.
With a three-octave vocal range and eccentric persona, she has developed an eclectic musical style over her four-decade career that has drawn on electronic, pop, experimental, trip hop, classical, and avant-garde music.
Directed by legendary film-maker Michel Gondry.
Written by Björk/Sigurjón Birgir Sigurdsson (aka Sjón).
Taken from her album ‘Debut’
Directed by Michel Gondry
❤️Further Study❤️
Featuring Kate Bush (an influence on Björk, Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift)
Kate Bush popularised the use of synthesisers in music.
She was the first woman to reach Number 1 in the UK charts with a song that she wrote herself (Wuthering Heights – 1978).
❤️Further Listening❤️
❤️Synthesiser Activity❤️
Kate Bush was the first musician to make best use of the ‘Fairlight Synthesiser’ –
click on the image to learn a little about how they work and mess about some AWESOME sounds!
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